On 23.4.2012 21:54 caruso wrote:Antoine and me take turns in playing this character after every descension.

Quickband Maiar have superior overall stats and abilities and can see the invisible but need a lot of experience to advance levels and must play in ironman mode.

Item damage and stat draining are much more severe in a Quickband ironman game than in most any other Angband.

After playing a berserker for such a long time I forgot that paladins can detect traps - until I stepped into a stat draining trap... On the bright side, we can make use of three different stat regaining potions by now.

I've detected Bolg who may prove a good catch on an otherwise "boring" level but there is a mature red dragon and a water vortex nearby, and we can't afford losing any more prayer books. *sigh*

On 23.4.2012 22:42 Antoine wrote:You're not wearing one of the free action rings?

I confess that I was obsessed with hunting down Thrukur, especially after he just ignored ProtEvil and disappeared with the "Wis+2. It was very satisfying when I finally got him, but apart from our own items his drops were not worth the risk.

Also had nasty encounters with Exp-drainers and an acidic cytoplasm. The latter I tried to polymorph at least four times and then rage-meleeed it. I hope the improved stealth combined with "Detection" makes up for it.

I wasn't sure whether we'll use Arunrúth and the elven armour till the final fight, so feel free to drop the resistance jewellery as necessary.

On 6.5.2012 14:23 caruso wrote:Too bad... I was rather satisfied with our equipment, and the restored wisdom was really helpful. A higher character level, or at least higher wisdom, and double resistances would have been nice.

In the end I was just teleporting around. First to escape three dreads, then a storm giant (who had taken our artefact xbow after the pack overflowed), then a beholder, then an unseen frost breather, then some acid breather and finally a mundanity vortex and a mature chromatic dragon. Maybe I would have made it if hadn't panicked and forgotten to swap armours...